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Time Style and Design:
Southern exposure
November 2008:
The notion that fashionable shopping takes place only in cities is outmoded...
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TVNZ - Close Up (Video):
Famous NZ town
15 May 2008:
They call themselves rat race refugees - successful international businessmen and women who throw it all in for a lifestyle change. Lisa Strathdee's one of them...
AA Travel 101 Regional Must-Do's:
Hokianga hip - Rawene and Kohukohu
May 2008:
Picturesque Rawene is the first stop on the unsuspecting visitor's journey into Hokianga's buzzing art scene. Here the local 1960s Post Office stands as a fine example of Retro Historic New Zealand public architecture. It was restored to its original flavour and converted into a quirky and stylish boutique by its new Kiwi owner...
Marie Claire Maison:
Aotearoa à la mode
May 2008:
New Zealand lifestyle and design fills 15 pages in this month's Marie Claire Maison. The French publication's spread includes Outpost Hokianga...
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Financial Times:
Off the beaten rack
January 2008:
While every other celebrity these days seems to be talking about launching a fashion range, ask long-time fashion insiders what they dream of and they’ll talk about escaping to the middle of nowhere...
Northern News:
Refreshing video art - Reel Random at Outpost Hokianga
16 January 2008:
How refreshing to see a video installation presenting 'observations on the art of life' by six New Zealand female artists...
Quintessentially:
Hokianga trail
November 2007:
Named after the vast estuary that dominates a largely untrodden area of the north-west of New Zealand's North Island...
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North & South:
A weekend in the Hokianga
November 2007:
The Hokianga is the gateway to nowhere. If you come here, it is because this is where you want to be, not because you're stopping off on the way to somewhere more important...
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Northern Advocate:
Rawene - where three's a trend
04 August 2007:
Far from the buzzing metropolis of city life, nestled on the shores of the idyllic waters of the Hokianga, lies Rawene - where there are three women which set the fashion trend...
Northern News:
Fashion outpost
27 December 2006:
When visiting Rawene next, do pay a visit to Outpost in the main street. Here you will find Lise Strathdee, a fashion designer from Milan...
Long White Book:
Outpost Hokianga - beautiful things
May 2006:
If one visits NZ to see the edge of the world, the silent, misty banks of the Hokianga Harbour in its far north is where one finds Rawene, the last town just before the edge...
Northern Advocate:
Hokianga becomes home for international designer
21 February 2005:
Rawene, far from the urban clamour, is the site of a new creative centre Outpost Hokianga...
Urbis:
Guerilla fashion
December 2005:
Leaving behind the world's capital of high fashion, design consultant Lise Strathdee has forged an exciting new retail venture in "the Hoki"...
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